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The Divine Whisper Daily Devotional- 20

by David Joynt on August 27, 2021


MATTHEW 7:26-27 | 26 And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!”

A seventh way to test Jesus’ words is one I do not advise. Base your life on your own insight or another philosophy or a different religious figure. The confirmation of your mistake will come in the destruction of your life and potential. This destruction may be within the boundaries of your life, in a storm of pressure or a serious temptation, or a failed enterprise. Or it may come in the eventual judgement that will sweep away the false and unholy and separate it from the true and good.

Don’t take this route for confirmation!

Is Jesus’ threat a gracious one?

 

Tags: gracious, threat

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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